Alan Carter wrote:
> if((fp = fopen(...)) != NULL)
> {
> if(fgets(...) != NULL)
> {
> printf(...);
> }
>> fclose(...)
> }
This reminds me of a 1976 article written by David Parnas and Harald
Würges: Response to undesired events in software systems. Since it's
old, it is harder to find, but here are a few things to try:
If you have download privilege on ACM Digital Library,
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=800253.807717
(If not, you can still see the full citation, the abstract, etc.)
The paper is also collected in this book full of Parnas's papers:
Software Fundamentals: collected papers by David L. Parnas. Edited by
Daniel M. Hoffman and David M. Weiss.
Someone else made slides to present this paper:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~wh5a/personal/Quals/misc/ParnasPaper%20on%20stanley/ResponseToUndesiredEvents.ppt